WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court today cut the $2.5 billion punitive damages award in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster to $500 million. The court ruled that victims of the worst oil spill in U.S. history ...

More than 11 million gallons of North Slope crude oil poured through the punctured steel hull of a tanker grounded on a wellcharted reef in Prince William Sound on Friday, unleashing the largest crude ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico, there was the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska. The tanker struck a reef on March 24, 1989, and unleashed ...

Nineteen years ago, the supertanker Exxon Valdez, loaded with millions of gallons of crude oil, ran aground in Alaskan waters, resulting in the most notorious oil spill in modern times. After a ...

A Jan. 29 Business article incorrectly referred to the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster as the largest oil spill in history. (Published 1/30/04) A federal judge in Alaska yesterday ordered Exxon Mobil Corp.

The ghosts of the Exxon Valdez environmental disaster seem to be floating around the Gulf Coast these days. EV is one of the country’s largest oil spills yet most of us have vague memories of the 1989 ...

It may be a quarter century since the Exxon Valdez disaster, yet blobs of oil along Alaska's coastline look as fresh as if they'd been spilled less than two weeks ago. This remaining petroleum might ...

While Greg Trauthwein never assigns me column subjects, each time the Great Ships issue comes around I go with the theme. However, I try to take a view askew on that subject and have found that these ...

The 1989 oil spill prompted changes in oil industry regulation and spill research. But oil companies today are working in more remote places than... Why Oil Drilling Is Both Safer And Riskier Since ...

The Supreme Court today threw out a $2.5 billion award of punitive damages against Exxon Mobil Corp. for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska, ruling that the award should be limited to the ...